I think the lesson here and she may well have won this election for Republicans. So across the country, the lesson should be, let's dispatch with all of this and compete on a different battleground here because this election denier stuff that Trump is so connected with is a loser for us.
David Axelrod: “I think the lesson here and she may well have won this election for Republicans. So across the country, the lesson…”
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Axelrod suggests that the Republican Party should move away from election denial rhetoric based on recent election outcomes.
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